Offenders to help with new museum project
Offenders sentenced to unpaid work by the courts will take part in a new project at Ryedale Folk Museum thanks to a pot of criminals’ cash.
The Hutton-le-Hole venue will receive £2,290 from North Yorkshire Police’s Why Should They? campaign, which will go towards the construction of a glass furnace shelter.
Launched last year, the scheme made £25,000 available to organisations whose work makes a contribution to the prevention of anti-social behaviour and crime.
The money was seized under the Proceeds of Crime Act by the Financial Investigation Unit.
The museum’s new structure will be build by participants in the Probation Trust’s Community Payback scheme. For the last seven years, offenders have played a major role in the complete reconstruction of a Second World War village hall and Iron Age round house.
A museum spokesman said: “The round house project gave the offenders employability skills, team skills and a sense of community and self-worth.”
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